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Abductive learning: towards bridging machine learning and logical reasoning

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This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB1004300) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61751306).

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Zhou, ZH. Abductive learning: towards bridging machine learning and logical reasoning. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 62, 76101 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-018-9801-4

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